Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum
Website: www.GreensboroCJM.org
Role: Co-Director
Collaborators: Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem (Co-Director), Billy Dee, Rachael Hayes, John Gibbs, Irvin Maldonado, The University of North Carolina Greensboro Jewish Studies Program, Religious Studies Department, Museum Studies Program, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Greensboro Project Space, and University Archives. Scuppernong Books, Elsewhere, B’nai Shalom Jewish Day School, Beth David Synagogue
When: September 2019 - Present
The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, the only museum of its kind in North Carolina, is a Jewish museum created in collaboration with faculty and students in the Jewish Studies Department and College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and the greater Greensboro Jewish public. “
GCJM is a decentralized and experimental institution created in the context of questions we asked ourselves about contemporary Jewish museums, about Jewish life in the south and about the Jewish community of Greensboro; What can serve as an emerging model of a contemporary Jewish museum in the United States today? How can small Jewish communities throughout the Southern United States claim the same cultural agency to create a Jewish museum as that of their metropolis counterparts in San Francisco, New York or LA? What would that representation look like through material and other cultural production? What could this museum offer to the discourse on contemporary Jewish life in Greensboro and the southern U.S. region?
What began as an artist residency with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro has become an establishment of the Jewish and greater Greensboro public. The GCJM has partnered with Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro Project Space, The Carolina Jews for Justice, local and national synagogues and Jewish institutions and is a noted participating institution of the National Museum of American Jewish History. We are proud to have had a selection of our inaugural exhibition collected by the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans.
